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[quote=Anonymous]My parents did something similar in the 70s and it was basically okay (my 16 year old brother threw a major rager and some stuff was broken). We had a similar sized family. But part of the deal is that the older teens were responsible for much of the babysitting of the younger ones — it wasn’t all on the 19 year old (who actually had a summer job and wasn’t home during the day anyway, so the 14-16 year old teens were watching us younger kids during the day). How trustworthy are the other teens? We never had a nanny or anything so in my family the teens all were pretty used to watching younger kids. (And when I was a teen, I then watched their kids so it came full circle.). I guess I would say it’s okay, but would pay the oldest for her time like you’d pay a nanny if she’s really expected to be responsible. [/quote]
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